Lyle Barbato, the comPADRE lead developer talked about conference services as a model for sustainability. Each collection in comPADRE is focused around supporting existing community or a particular course. Teachers, Courses, Specific Students, Specific faculty. They offer workshops etc to those communities. The Physics Education Research community has existed since the 60s. It has grown alot in the past 10 years. Until recently, they had few publication outlets. Robert Beichner came to them asking them to build a central repository which became p(e)r central and a Physics Education Journal, and a PER conference established in 1998. That has become the premier outlet. In 2007 PER came to comPADRE to provide a portal for hosting the annual conferences. It fits into the library model because it allows them to capture and preserve a full record of what happened. They are adapting existing services including rubrics for evaluating abstracts and resources. The conferences and the new content they provide has driven the use of the website.
This work reminds me some of what Justin did with 51weeks – a platform for supporting communication around a conference and the other 51 weeks of the year.
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by joel
Filed under: conferences
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